The Scottish Mail on Sunday

You won’t BELIEVE what they tell me!

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It’s incredibly embarrassi­ng. The problem is I wear a very tight pair of Lycra shorts.

Olympic long jump gold medallist Greg Rutherford tells me he still can’t get used to the reaction he gets to his physique when he competes.

I thought if you were on telly everyone was rich. Where are my staff? Why am I picking up my own cat poo? I’m on the telly!

Documentar­y presenter Cherry

Healey complains she is one BBC star who isn’t overpaid when I met her at Wilderness Festival.

I’m allowed to go shopping by myself now – but they stipulated that I definitely can’t wear a bikini on TV.

Rachel Riley, right, explains the Countdown bosses’ costume rules to me – and destroys the dreams of a million male fans.

Peter Capaldi told me he loved Star Trek and so did Jenna Coleman, which is weird because she’s only about 11 years old.

Actor Wil Wheaton reveals to me that he’s stunned Jenna – who is actually 31 – remembers him as Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation from the Nineties.

I had more in common with members of Take That than I did with the Stone Roses.

Happy Mondays singer Shaun

Ryder confesses to me at Rough Trade East record store that he didn’t really fit in with the ‘Madchester’ music phenomenon.

Are you trying to portray me as a champagne socialist? How could you! But I am trying gin-making workshops.

MP Ruth Cadbury is a tee-total Quaker and passes on bubbly, but she assures me that she’s determined to help out the Sipsmith gin distillery – which is in her Brentford and Isleworth constituen­cy.

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